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A 146 tile set at 22 mm, which is the traditional count plus 2 spares, supplied with either a box or a bag.
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The traditional Chinese set is 144 tiles: 108 across the 3 suits, 16 winds, 12 dragons, 8 flowers and seasons. A set of 146 carries 2 extra, and those 2 are spares.
It sounds like nothing and it is the difference between a set that survives a decade and one that quietly stops being playable. Mahjong tiles are lost rather than broken, single tiles cannot be reordered, and a set missing one tile cannot be played properly.
2 spares buy a set 2 accidents.
Between the 20 mm pocket size and the 26 mm compact size. The extra 2 millimetres over the smallest sets give the face noticeably more room, which matters because it is where the character has to fit.
For a set that will be both the travel set and the everyday one, this is a sensible size.
Genuinely different products for different uses. A box protects better and stacks on a shelf; a bag is lighter, packs into an odd shaped space, and slumps into a car footwell.
If the set will live at home and come out on evenings, take the box. If it lives in a bag, take the bag.
Keep the 2 spare tiles in the set rather than somewhere safe. Spares stored separately are spares that cannot be found on the evening a tile goes missing, which is the only evening they matter.
The same applies to dice and any wind indicator: everything that belongs to the set should travel with the set.
Barely damp cloth. Count the tiles back in, and keep the 2 spares with the set rather than somewhere safe, which is where spares go to be forgotten.
| Tiles | 146 |
|---|---|
| Tile size | 22 x 15 x 12 mm |
| Certification | CE |
| Weight | 1 kg (2.2 lb) |
| Age | 12 and over |
Actual size
Drawn to scale. Tile 22 x 15 x 12 mm, next to a standard credit card.
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Read at a glance
Nobody wants to squint at their own hand. Faces that carry across the table, so the game moves and nobody has to ask.
Weight you'll notice
The difference between a tile you tolerate and a tile you reach for is in your fingers. Heavier tiles shuffle better and stack straighter.
Match your mat
Tiles set the palette for everything else on the table. Pick the ones you want to build around.
Ask what you are looking at them on. A 22 mm engraved tile has proportions that read well in the hand and on a small table, where an oversized tile can look coarse. Engraving is the other half: cut faces catch the light along their edges, which is what gives a set depth in a photograph and, more usefully, at nine in the evening under a lamp.
None of them, in any rule set that has been written down. The folklore attaches mostly to the red dragon and to the east seat, which deals first. What genuinely improves your odds of a good evening is prosaic: a complete set. This one carries 146 tiles rather than 144 precisely so that a lost tile does not turn into a superstition about the set.
Complete antique sets, and the word doing the work there is complete. Collectors price a full pre war set in its case far above the sum of its parts, and a missing tile costs a set most of its value. It is the same logic behind carrying spares in a modern set, at a scale where the arithmetic is smaller but the principle is identical.
Not usefully. Colour and finish drift between production runs, so a tile bought separately arrives visibly different even when it is nominally the same product. That is the argument for a set that ships with spares of its own: 2 extra tiles in the box on day one are worth more than any replacement you could source in 3 years time.
A mahjong set is handled more than almost anything else in the house: every tile passes through four pairs of hands, several times a game.
That is what we select for. Tiles that read clearly from the far side of the table, edges that stay clean, and a case that still closes after a few seasons of being carried around.
Sets differ in ways that only show at the table: the weight of a tile in the hand, how a crak reads from three seats away, whether the case survives the trip to a friend’s house.
When we have the figures, we publish them: tile count, tile size, weight and material. When we do not have one, we leave it out rather than guess.
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